Vitamins and Nutrition

What this quiz asks

• Which mineral does the body need most to build strong bones and teeth, and is plentiful in milk and cheese?
• What does the calorie count on a food label actually measure?
• Carrots owe their colour to beta-carotene, which the body turns into which vitamin?
• The 'calories' printed on food labels are really kilocalories, each worth 1,000 small calories.
• The most common kind of anaemia, with tiredness and pale skin, is caused by a shortage of which mineral?
• Rickets, which softens children's bones and can bow their legs, is caused mainly by a lack of which vitamin?
• In 1747, which Scottish naval surgeon ran one of the first controlled trials, showing that citrus fruit cured scurvy?
• Did British sailors get the nickname 'limeys' from the citrus juice they were given to ward off scurvy?
• Select ALL of these vitamins that are fat-soluble.
• Which vitamin does the blood need in order to clot?
• The body stores so much vitamin C that scurvy takes years to appear once it disappears from the diet.
• Select ALL of these nutrients that are minerals rather than vitamins.
• How many kilocalories does one gram of fat provide?
• Order these fruits by how much vitamin C they contain, weight for weight, highest first.
• Adding iodine to table salt was introduced to prevent which condition?
• Beriberi spread in Asia when people switched to polished white rice, which lacks which vitamin?
• In 1912 the biochemist Casimir Funk coined the word 'vitamine' by joining 'vital' to which chemical term?
• Pellagra, once common where people lived mostly on maize, is caused by a lack of which vitamin?
• Vitamin B12 is found naturally almost only in animal foods. Which organisms actually make it?
• Which Hungarian scientist won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on vitamin C, extracted in bulk from Szeged paprika?